Check out Tego's article in The New York Post's Tempo magazine! To view the Tempo version click here. BLACK PRIDE By TEGO CALDERON F...

Gallego is an accomplished literary figure—author of two critically-acclaimed books of poetry—AND reggaeton's resident poet. He is also...

Whether they call themselves reggaetoneros, hip-hoppers, hip-hopperos, raperos, rapeadores... they all hail Luis Armando Cruz Lozada as ...

NOT ON THE REGGAETONIC, BUT ON THE HIP HOP TIP... Last night, I was (once again) a lucky witness to Lah Tere ’s gorgeous singing, powerful r...

Someday soon I need to write about masculine Archetypes and Shadows in reggaeton. Sounds a little esoteric, but that's all I could think...

Two more thought-provoking postings on the state of reggaeton, this time written in Spanish by Low Q of Radio Frecuencia Subterránea : ...

Who is Bernardo Brigante? I would sure like to know. I googled him, but came up empty-handed. A friend recently forwarded an email he receiv...

It's almost the end of the year and I'm in a retrospective mood. So I've decided to create a Reggaetonica Vault. Below is the f...

La Sista ’s debut CD is in stores! It's titled Majestad Negroide and just came out 2 weeks ago on Machete Music. The Loiza native’s rhy...

I’ve been asked about this blog’s title. It’s not so much that I am reggaetonic—although I do like that play on words—but that reggaeton is ...

My co-editors and myself (for the anthology Reading Reggaeton ) have had a very hard time identifying folks writing on Panama’s reggae/regg...

Yesterday, I walked into my classroom at Columbia to find a greatly pleasant surprise: James G. Spady and Samir Meghelli came to visit! Jame...

Last Tuesday in the class I am teaching at Columbia University, we watched two segments of The Chosen Few, El Documental (Part I): Sex &...

Language conspires against us. How to make ourselves understood and at the same time speak in a way that does not perpetuate crazy myths? Fo...

The other day I attended an amazing Boricua roots music block party at the Casita de Chema in the Bronx: plena and bomba galore, courtesy of...

Last week in class, I had a hell of a hard time explaining that blackness and the African diaspora in the Americas include LatinAmericans/La...

I have received a lot of requests for the syllabus of the class I am currently teaching at Columbia University. I am posting it here for eas...

What and who is half-Puerto Rican? The question has a pretty clear answer in the U.S., but not in Puerto Rico and many other parts of Lat...

Felix Jimenez is a journalist, professor and author of Las practicas de la carne (2005) and Vieques y la prensa (2001). Mi Querida Raquel: L...

This post is inspired by David's, Negrura's and TatoBrujo's comments to my previous blog post (on www.myspace.com/raquelzrivera)...